Oscar's father and mother on trial --
Oscar Wilde as a schoolboy --
Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford --
Formative influences: Oscar's poems --
Oscar 's quarrel with Whistler: marriage --
Oscar Wilde's faith and practice --
Oscar's reputation and supporters --
Oscar's growth to originality-about 1890 --
The summer of success: Oscar's first play --
The first meeting with Lord Alfred Douglas --
The threatening cloud draws nearer --
Danger signals: the challenge --
Oscar attacks queensberry and is worsted --
How genius is persecuted in England --
The queen vs. Wilde: the first trial --
Escape rejected: the second trial and sentence --
Prison and the effects of punishment --
Mitigation of punishment; but not release --
His St. Martin's summer: his best work --
The results of his second fall: his genius --
His sense or rivalry; his love of life and laziness --
"A great romantic passion!" --
His judgements of writers and of women --
We argue about his "pet vice" and punishment --
The last hope lost --
The end --
The last word.